Can someone please help me? I dont know what I am doing wrong.
When I woke up at 2 am this little peep was actively zipping. You could see it had plenty of room to maneuver and was progressing nicely. I went back to bed and when I woke up this morning I was horrified to find that the half-zipped peep was dead in the shell. The egg membrane was moist but the inside of the egg around the pip was stickyish and had this yellow froth look to it. Also, the peep seemed swollen in the egg now.
My temp has held steady at 99.5 and humidity has been 70-75% since lockdown.
I had a similar problem with my last hatch. Most of the eggs made it to full term and died before pipping. One that did pip was similarly stuck. Most thought it was too high of humidity during the first 18 days so this time I did the dry hatch method using 35% humidity for the first 18 days.
This is so disheartening. I dont know what I am doing wrong and it seems to keep happening. Please help.
When I woke up at 2 am this little peep was actively zipping. You could see it had plenty of room to maneuver and was progressing nicely. I went back to bed and when I woke up this morning I was horrified to find that the half-zipped peep was dead in the shell. The egg membrane was moist but the inside of the egg around the pip was stickyish and had this yellow froth look to it. Also, the peep seemed swollen in the egg now.
My temp has held steady at 99.5 and humidity has been 70-75% since lockdown.
I had a similar problem with my last hatch. Most of the eggs made it to full term and died before pipping. One that did pip was similarly stuck. Most thought it was too high of humidity during the first 18 days so this time I did the dry hatch method using 35% humidity for the first 18 days.
This is so disheartening. I dont know what I am doing wrong and it seems to keep happening. Please help.
